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"text": "Those in the Lowland line who lay near him, and desired to enjoy their lives and property in quiet, were contented to pay him a small composition, in name of protection money, and comforted themselves with the old proverb that it was better to \"fleech the deil than fight him.\""
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"ref": "1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 13, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise",
"text": "[T]he police had raised the tariff for sporting houses, and would collect seventy-five and a hundred a month protection money.",
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"ref": "2007 November 6, Rob Crilly, “Kenya Accused of Mass Killings”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-04",
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"roman": "kryšuvannja biznesu",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "кришування бізнесу"
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},
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "保護費"
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"roman": "bǎohùfèi",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "保护费"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"word": "beskyttelsespenge"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "suojeluraha"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"word": "argent de racket"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
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"word": "Schutzgeld"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "dmey khasut",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "דְּמֵי חָסוּת"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "jaminan perlindungan"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "pizzo"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pláta za zaščítu",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "пла́та за защи́ту"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pláta za pokrovítelʹstvo",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"formal"
],
"word": "пла́та за покрови́тельство"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pláta za krýšu",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "пла́та за кры́шу"
},
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"tags": [
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"word": "výpalné"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"word": "renta"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"word": "protección"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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"word": "beskyddarpengar"
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"word": "skyddspengar"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kryšuvannja biznesu",
"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
"word": "кришування бізнесу"
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"sense": "money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm",
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